True love has never been about one-sided devotion and making yourself feel good.
I always thought that being there for someone and giving them everything was all there was to love. Only after going through it did I understand what true love means: that deep in their soul, that person has already come to see you as their emotional anchor.
It’s the hands that catch you when you hit rock bottom;
the embrace that lets you cry without fear when you’re helpless and breaking down;
the support that stays firmly at your back, even when you have nothing.
They may not dazzle, but they endure; they may not be loud, but their love runs deep. At last, you understand that love isn’t about desperately running toward someone. It’s about turning around and finding that someone still waiting in the distance, beneath the lights, to tell you: You will always have a place to lean on.
